Reasoning and Critical Thinking (PHIL021) - 2004-2005 Tutorial Notes
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Page 1: Fall 2004 Session
Title
Tutorial 1 - Reasoning and Critical Thinking
Topics: inference; agruments versus explanations; logical strength; soundness.

Tutorial 2 - Meaning and Definition
Topics: theories of meaning; functions of language; purposes of definition; methods of definition; assessment of reportive definitions.

Tutorial 3 - Clarifying Meaning
Topics: principle of charity; vagueness and types of ambiguity; analytic, contradictory and synthetic statements; necessary and sufficient conditions.
Tutorial 4 - Reasoning Puzzles
Topics: LSAT reasoning puzzles.
Tutorial 5 - Near Arguments
Topics: review; reports of arguments; explanations.
Tutorial 6 - Reconstructing Arguments
Topics: identifying premises and conclusions; missing premises; argument structure.
Tutorial 7 - Strategies for Assessing Arguments
Topics: fallacies approach; criterial approach; seven rules (steps) for assessing arguments.
Tutorial 8 - Assessing Truth Claims | (overheads)
Topics: theories of truth (correspondence and coherence); practical approach to truth assessment; empirical and non-empirical truths; criterion of acceptability.
Tutorial 9 - Assessing Truth Claims and Assessing Relevance
Topics: fallacies of accepability; criterion of relevance; fallacies of relevance.

Tutorial 10 - Assessing Adequacy | (overheads)
Topics: criterion of adequacy; fallacies of adequacy including causal fallacies.

 
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